If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

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.

Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

For what it will make of you to achieve it.

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

A place is only as good as the people in it.

The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.