If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

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 know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.