The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

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 is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.