Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

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.

I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.

The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.