I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

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

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

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

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.