Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

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.

Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?

Respect fails before love

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.