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

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

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

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

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.