Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

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.

Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't.

You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention.

The universe without music would be madness.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

All I've got to do today is smile.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.