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.

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.

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.

She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

Without freedom there is no art.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.