The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.