The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

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.

An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don’t know how loving and amazing you are.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.