More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

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.

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

I'm not a big raised stage fan.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.