I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

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.

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

the evil the u are the brighter u will get