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

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.

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.

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

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

Each man creates god in his own image.

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