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.

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.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

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

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

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.