I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

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.

When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You can see it, hear it, and feel it…and it is contagious!

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.