I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

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.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

We find new strength in every battle won.

She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

The customer is never wrong.

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.