The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

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.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.