Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

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

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.