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

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

Each man creates god in his own image.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.