poetry is where the language is renewed.

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.

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

Breakaway goals are fun.