I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

You are either free or not free

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.