Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

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.

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

Power is knowing your past.