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

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

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

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

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

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