I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.

Heaven is a place where you can get all you want of whatever you like. Heaven is not the end: it's only the beginning.

When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.