We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.