My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

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.

as you think, so is your reality

By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom.

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

The coop is guarded from the inside.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.