I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

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.

May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

I have never been a communicant.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump's rise that does not include those facts is a false analysis.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!