An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

For me, every week is a fashion week.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

To think is to differ.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

We just cannot worry about ourselves.