What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

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.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.