Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.