I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

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.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

You can't really dust for vomit.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.