Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

When your heart feels strangely warm, you’ve found your love

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.