If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.