Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

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 momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Feel the attraction. Do not resist the love. Give yourself for love.

The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.