We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

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.

The real fun of life is in laughing

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.