War is what happens when language fails.

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.

What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind’s reflection.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.