I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

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.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

That's the easiest 69 I ever made.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.