Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

Commonsense will never come from following your heart

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.