Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

His name was Theo.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry."No, I think you're like James, " said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.