expectation isn't the same as desire

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.

A man cannot own more than his heart can love.

But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.