Each man creates god in his own image.

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.

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

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.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.