When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

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.

The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.