There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

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.

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.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

If our foundation is on God, then our burden becomes His and we sail through smoothly.

The simple truth is that life goes on whether we're ready or not.The question we need to ask ourselves is, do we find a way to embrace it, or do wesit back and allow it to pass us by?

What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.