Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

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.

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

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

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

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.