You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

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.

The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

Music's my medication.

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts