In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

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.

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 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.

Don’t follow any leader

Blessed are you, all who put your hope and trust in the Lord.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.