I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets.

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.