It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that h….

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it..

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds..

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past..

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too m….

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual..

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory..

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education..

That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingeni….

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their res….

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous..

That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness o….

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth..

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually r….

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the ….

The ideal companion in bed is a good book..

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart..

Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather tha….

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are….

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things ….

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the sa….