There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

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.

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sanin?

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.