She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

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.

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.