Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.

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.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Well if God wanted a broken spirit out of me, He would get Hiswish. At this point in my life the only thing I could do was look up.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

I have decided not to run for president.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.