Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

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.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

There's water in my bonesa ghost of a chance

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."