I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

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.

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

We must . . . guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.