In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

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.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.