Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.

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.

If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Fear usually looks like anger.

There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

So many heads so many wits.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

I was raised as a red diaper baby.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.