The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

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.

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 Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

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

May the God richly bless humankind.

Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

We're all that matters. Our lips touch with each word he speaks, his stare so intense that I know he can see straight through to my soul.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.