Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

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.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.