I fully expect the police to come after me. To which I have just one thing to say: good luck.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

Thinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian, not American.