Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Small is good, but none is better.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.