Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

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 will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

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.

People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

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.

As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.