Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

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.

No decorationcan compare in loveliness

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.