Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

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.

With your visualization intact, commit to act.

I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.