Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

America has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases, or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction.

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

I believe in local control of education.

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.