Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

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.

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.