History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

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.

You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness.

The imagination is a wonderful thing

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.