We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

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.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

But how can one be warm alone?

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.