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.

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.

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.

Walk in the the holy way.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me.

Loneliness changes you more than time.

Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't.

Honesty is the best policy.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.

Only we should not be influenced by the winds.

To sleep perchance to dream