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.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

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?

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.

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.