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

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.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.