It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

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 the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.