The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

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

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

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

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.