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

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

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.