Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!

We cannot exist without water.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

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

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.