for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

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.

False love can be bought

Anyone can make a living, but it takes an extraordinary person to make a living while creating a strong positive impact.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

The purpose of life is to live it.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.