Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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.

Tuition is to studies and training is to job, but the gradation never stops (on Appraisal)

It was at that moment, that even though she'd thought it before, Finley realized that Emily was a bloody genius.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists