It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

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.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

She wakes, she smiles .... because she is enevloped in the warmth of loving you.

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.

Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.