I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

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.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.