Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....

I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love and prosperity.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

People become what they expect themselves to become

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.