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

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.

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

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

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

We will finish the race.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.