Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

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.

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 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.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts." "Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.