The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

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.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.

To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers have to take a stance on it.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.