Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

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.

Dare to seek answers to your questions.

Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

No man is lost while he yet lives.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.