I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

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 did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other...

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.