You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

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 you saturate your mind with positive thoughts, it will sustain you in any situation.

What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.