All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

- Marian Engel

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

- Marian Engel

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

- Marian Engel

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through chang…

- Marian Engel

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

- Marian Engel

There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

- Marian Engel