The past is a closed door.

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.

Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul, And thou shalt live for ever.

A leader only follows a better leader than himself.

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

My actions are my only true belongings.