Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

We gain knowledge from education we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience.

Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

You can't judge anyone for what they've done, because people change.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.