A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

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

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

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

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

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.