Not real can tell us about real.

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.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the "Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway."

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.