I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

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.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!

Believe you are great and you will be great.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Me love you long time.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god