...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

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 only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.

Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?