On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Basically, if you're a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.