Mordecai Richler

I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads.…

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Mordecai Richler

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them.…

— 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

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

— Mordecai Richler

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Mordecai Richler

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many…

— Mordecai Richler

This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for…

— Mordecai Richler

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of…

— Mordecai Richler

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the…

— Mordecai Richler

In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed…

— Mordecai Richler

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off…

— Mordecai Richler

“All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the…

— Mordecai Richler

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with…

— Mordecai Richler

Each man creates god in his own image.

— Mordecai Richler

“I'm world-famous,” Dr. Parks said, “all over Canada.”

— Mordecai Richler

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

— Mordecai Richler