I'm not going to have a husband anyway, " said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

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.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.