The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

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.

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

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.

Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

The best of all is God with us

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.