I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

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.

Growth is grace.

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.

Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

I just have an inability to lie.

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.