Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

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.

Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.

Think in a new way, think every day to find the truth.

...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...

No conflict no story

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

You exist without the feeling of existence.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.