I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.