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

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

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

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.

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.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.

Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.