Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

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.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.