I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

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.

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.