Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no tru….

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abr….

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology..

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than eve….

Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now..

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

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and,….

In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly,….

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 ad….

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid..

Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seem….

Each man creates god in his own image..

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

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side..

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 creat….

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I thin….

I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another wa….

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothin….

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a co….

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

My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained ab….