You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.