Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

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.

Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.

We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.