Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

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.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience.