Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.