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.

Each man creates god in his own image.

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.

Success does not come to a person’s life by chance you have to fight for it

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.