A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others..

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class..

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….

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

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

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….

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

Each man creates god in his own image..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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 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….

Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now..

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,….

I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a ….

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….

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