Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

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.

Thirty days hath September April June and November All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight in fine Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

We remain where we are. Remaining where we are, we go anywhere we want. We go wherever we go.

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

I am not a natural dancer.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.