Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.