a handful of crumpled stars

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.

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy just independently lazy I suppose.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

I believed in God my whole life.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.