The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

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.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Sometimes, failure uppercuts those who look down on other people.

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Wilson or Brady?" The writing is on the ball...

This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know, " said Ray. "My mums a plumber.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.