After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.