Love is the pursuit of shadows.

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.

Always tying to please others is definitely an assured path to stress and failures in life.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit?

For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.