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

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.

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.

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

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.

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.

We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy.

But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Pain is only temporary, glory is forever