I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

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.

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.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.