I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

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.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.