If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

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.

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

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

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

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

Each man creates god in his own image.