It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

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.

Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue.

Nobody intentionally sets out to fail or dwell in mediocrity.

God does not need our money. He owns everything, including “our” money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.