oil paints...the look of licked lips.

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.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

If someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"