The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)