Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.