Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

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.

By loving the broken parts in you, I learn to love the broken parts in me. I learn that we are not broken after all.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Never was strumpet faire.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.