I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

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.

All of us are watchers - of television of time clocks of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking not many are seeing.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.