Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

- Irving Layton

By walking, I found out where I was going.

- Irving Layton

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

- Irving Layton

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

- Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…

- Irving Layton

A political leader worthy of assassination

- Irving Layton

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo…

- Irving Layton

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

- Irving Layton

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

- Irving Layton