He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Parenthood is a very sacred journey but only a few owe it!

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.