Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

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.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I'm always the new girl in the whorehouse.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.