I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

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.

Power has a social function.

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.