In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

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.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private that's me.

Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody.

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.