I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.

Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it’s really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.