After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subc….

I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it, if he does, individually - and that is that, in….

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit..

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 w….

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothe….

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the to….

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 ha….

From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my f….

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..

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That Amer….

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

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

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….

I never wanted to be a pundit..

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

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

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

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