We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

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.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?