It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

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 have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Unfortunately, some of the African leaders employ various nefarious means to remain in office far beyond what their constitutions permit.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.