Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

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 real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Employment sells out the future life

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Most people have to date or court other people before they meet the one.