Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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.

Triana realized Alexio was going to unravel her predictable world and the idea excited her.

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that!

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.