Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

If you have a talented family, you should be shot if you don't use them.