It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

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.

Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.

I am an atheist thank God!

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

What's really fun is to write under different names.