Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

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.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.

Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.