Mordecai Richler

"So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau…"

"Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberl…"

"...the contempt that he has for Quebecers, and for the facts, that trickles from every page, hurt me, as a Quebecer, as a journalist also, as an author, the intellectual dishonesty with which he plays…"

"This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke."

"I was a voracious reader, but you would be mistaken if you took that as evidence of my quality."

"The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me."

"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 about how humiliating it was for him to spring the tr…"