The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.