Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

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.

To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.

Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

Now I look beyond what I can't do and focus on what I CAN.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.