Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

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.

A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Paths are made by walking

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.