A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Each man creates god in his own image.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

Give me your vote, Hillary Clinton says, on November eighth. And then she'll say, so long, see you in four years. That's what it is.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.