I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

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.

Our absence is what remains of us.

I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made it mine.

Envy suggests inferiority.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

This sorry poem Isn't long It's simply to say I was wrong!!

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.