I Never Wanted To Be A Pundit.

Parents Can Plant Magic In A Child's Mind Through Certain Words Spoken With Some Thrilling Quality Of Voice, Some Uplift Of The Heart And Spirit.

Well, I Had A Small Degree, That Little Infection Of Skepticism About America Which Resides In The Minds Of Even America's Closest Friends. That America Can't Be Quite As Good As It Says It Is. And Why Does It Need So Relentlessly To Keep Saying How Good It Is?

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.

After I Became A Citizen, I Felt Freer To Say What I Thought About This Country, Both Negative And Positive. I Think I Had Been, Consciously And Subconsciously, Biting My Tongue In The Past.

I Am Not Really Retired, And May Never Be Completely, But I Can't Think Of A Better Place To Contemplate Retirement Than New York City.