No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

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.

Be a person of value

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

There's no map to human behaviour.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.