And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

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.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

The doer alone learneth.

I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

With the exception of dessert, food is food.

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

I say you have to remember in darkness what he told you in light. And the principle is this that there are times that it does feel like God is playing hide and go seek. But I trust him.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.