Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

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.

Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

I say the one thing Hillary Clinton has over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what she has done has turned out badly.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.