Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

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

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.