The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

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.

Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

Spermicide' sort of rhymes with 'pesticide', yet you wouldn't put a load of DDT in you know where to kill you know what, now would you?

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

I don't believe UPA government did nothing; they did whatever they could and they deserve appreciation for whatever good they did.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

I'm such a sucker for love and I believe in it and I always want it to win.

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.