When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

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.

If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.

Success in whatever format it prevails is founded on how deeply we master the inner workings of our minds.

Intuition is the gentle hand of divine love.

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.