Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

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.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.