She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

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.

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.