I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

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.

Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.

I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.