Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

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.

When I realize I made someone's day, it makes my day.

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.