...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.

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.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.