It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

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.

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.