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

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

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

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

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.

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.