The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

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.

She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Nothing is scary... everything is a lesson... all is about getting in the perspective.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.