He was as famous as Canadian writer could get at the time.

[His] poems are astonishing. These are poems that rival anything anyone in the world has ever written.

He is badly neglected. How could we let this happen.

You always got the sense that Irving was performing himself. He had a very strong sense of himself and how he wanted to appear and what he wanted to show people.

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to the goal line, we were able to run it in most of the time.