Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

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.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.