The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

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.

I Can See Nothing But The Bottom Sides of Her Shoes, And Then All Became Ample Dark.

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.