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

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

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.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

Each man creates god in his own image.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.