Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

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.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"