Writing poetry is a state of free float

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.

We are God’s holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.

Love just for love—not for a reason.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

Live by faith, not by sight.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.