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…

- Mordecai Richler

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

- Mordecai Richler

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…

- Mordecai Richler

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,…

- Mordecai Richler

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

- Mordecai Richler

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…

- Mordecai Richler

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

- Mordecai Richler

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,…

- Mordecai Richler

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

- Mordecai Richler