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.

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

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

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

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?

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.