As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

I didn't think; I experimented.

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

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.