When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.

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.

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Channel your passion into lasting results

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.