Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

The best live among us in disguise.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

I live in an atmosphere of music.

You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.