I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

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.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Either I'm changing very quickly, and everything is standing still, or I'm the one standing still and everything is changing around me. Either way, I'm out of joint with the world.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

I like working on big budget films.

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

Example is better than precept.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.