Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.