I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

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.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Every sequel needs to be bigger and better.

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.