I Never Wanted To Be A Pundit.

And I'm In Favor Of That Because I Have A Gay Son, Who's A Very Successful Theater Designer.

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 Brothers Have Homes; And We'll Go Back There This Summer.

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 Wider And Richer.

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 Tongue And In The Mind.

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 Happening In Canada. And My Mother Was Fervently Of That Opinion.