You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

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.

If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.