A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

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.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.