When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

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.

Resources follow vision.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

The devil was the first democrat

People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.