The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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.

It's good to remember even during your darkest hour, you are not here to be punished.You are here to serve.

People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.