I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

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.

I believe that every story has happy end, Just don't stop trying to get it

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.