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

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.

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

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

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

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.