I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.