There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

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.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?