The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

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.

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

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.

Snape's patronus was a doe, ' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you’re stagnant you get caught in the past.

Feelings are not controllable, " I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.

Whatever you have been praying and yearning for, you will soon be proof of it!

If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.