Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the same events written in 1995 and they're very different. There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.