Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

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.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.