Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

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.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.