Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.

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.

Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.

And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.