How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

I didn't think; I experimented.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.