I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

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.

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40, 000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.