I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

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 was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

Nobody is really an expert, as we are all still learning.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.