Mordecai Richler Quotes

There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just ab...

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you ...

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another ...

Fundamentally all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying about the brief flicker of tim...

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself in...

Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffe...

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so ...

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, jus...

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper tr...

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, u...

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three...

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

...if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, ...

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that...

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche o...

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its ...

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntle...

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done but you d...

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you ...