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.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

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.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.