Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

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.

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

Find the good - and praise it.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.