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

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.

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

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."

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?

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.