I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

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.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Children remind us that we're all children.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.