It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

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.

Happiness in marriage is a choice you have to make: fight for, protect, pursue. It doesn't happen to you, you make it happen.

The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Life without music is unthinkable.

[David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.