I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.