Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Eyes shows lies.

If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.