I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

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.

Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.