Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

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.

I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.