I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment that's all it is.

Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.