The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

- Pierre Berton

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

- Pierre Berton

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

- Pierre Berton

Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same …

- Pierre Berton

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

- Pierre Berton

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

- Pierre Berton

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after te…

- Pierre Berton