Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

A political leader worthy of assassination

By walking, I found out where I was going.

Never fear to be wonderful.

See a day, not with the open eyes, but with the open mind from far away.

Act one: put your characters in a tree. Act two: throw rocks at them. Act three: get them down again.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.