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.

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.

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

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

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

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