"The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people."

"My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures."

"In many respects, my best friends were dogs."

"My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman."

"New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec."

"As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school."

"In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW."

"During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,..."

"My problem is that I can't come unless Johnny Cash is playing."

"Listening to music that I hate calms me down."

"Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational."

"Now, I recognize that these are very real possibilities." I said. "But let's pretend for a second that they aren't."

"I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it."

"There are jobs I could work, temp jobs, call center jobs, tech support, if I had to. I have before, and I suspect that there will be times in my life when I have to get those jobs again, when I have to make ends meet. But I don't have another career waiting for me. I don't want another career."

"I would keep writing even without the eventual possibility of glory. Really, with writing, the idea that I was going to be able to support myself was a long shot. I’m living off my writing now, without grants or a part time job, and it feels so tenuous. It could go downhill tomorrow, you know? I was writing before I thought it was even a real possibility to support myself with my writing, and I’ll keep writing after it becomes clear that it isn’t a real possibility after all. Not because I “must write” or because it’s “in my blood” or anything poetic like that. Or maybe those are just fancy ways of describing this certainty I have that all of my worth is wrapped up in my writing. From very young it seemed to me that writing was the only thing I did that was worthwhile. That had a chance of lasting. So, my work is something I have always given priority. The rest of my life can be falling apart, and it often seems to be, and I still take the time to work on the comic, or short stories. I am always moving forward with my writing. In a way I do treat everything else as a support system for the writing, but it isn’t really. And by treating it that way, I tend to neglect it."

"Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it."

"Live for today you retarded little shit. The end is near."

"I had a shirt made up that says, "I consistently make poor life choices." The shirt was not very popular."

"...You'll never find someone calling A Softer World good natured. I don't think we do a completely bleak comic, but good natured just isn't a way you could ever describe it. Or my novels. Not the way I want."

"Sometimes I think dent-resistant side panels are a waste of money, but then I remember ladies be always throwing themselves at my car, and titties can wreak havoc on a paint job."

"We need a new Mario game where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try to push down that sick feeling in your stomach telling you she's "damaged goods," a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex-negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom, "Do you still love me?" and you pretend to be asleep. You press A button rhythmically, to control your breath, to keep even."

"I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices."

"You've spent every penny going out for adventures, and you expect the people back home to be your safety net. I know that, but again and again I get restless, and I need to just sell everything and take off, and I tell myself that I won't rely on people to catch me afterwards, but of course, they're always there, and they always catch me, because they love me whether I'm stupid or not."

"Now I feel I am ready to face a world with sharp corners and all. I feel I am ready to come to work for Abrasion Enterprises."

"I HAD A PROBLEM."

"The depression and suicidal fantasies of three years ago are nothing but a memory to me now."

"Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does."

"When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before."

"Her face is bent out of shape, but still recognizable. There are too many teeth in her mouth, now. It is torn open at the sides. Split along her cheeks, so the weird jagged stones of her teeth can breathe."

"My dead family and I are in your debt, and I long to help you in any way I can."

"Romance is all about making a story out of our love"

"I'm tired of the moral high ground. We've already got more than our share of Gandhis in "the movement". We need a General Patton. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for HIS country."

"My other pro-tolerance message is also condescending."

"DEATH TO THE CARTOON HETEROSEXUAL PARADIGM."

"I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story."

"There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women."

"The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire."

"I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic."

"I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut."

"When I played "doctor" I played to win."

"Be the trouble you want to see in the world."

"I'd rather die terrified than live forever."

"If at first you don't succeed...run."

"Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down."

"You say catastrophe, I say, fuck yes."

"The world needs balance, and if I have to be unbalanced to supply it then so be it."

"...There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better."

"By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. (p. 25)"

"Hypnotized by their rear-view mirrors, philosophers and scientists alike tried to focus the figure of man in the old ground of nineteenth-century industrial mechanism and congestion. They failed to bridge from the old figure to the new. It is man who has become both figure and ground via the electrotechnical extension of his awareness. With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature. (p. 11)"

"In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)"