The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

- Hugh Maclennan

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

- Hugh Maclennan

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and …

- Hugh Maclennan

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…

- Hugh Maclennan

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace …

- Hugh Maclennan

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

- Hugh Maclennan

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

- Hugh Maclennan