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

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

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

Each man creates god in his own image.

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

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

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.