Life's not fair; why should I be?

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.

Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue.

If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

What do I want to do with my life?

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.