It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

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.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.