This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

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

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

In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and certain aspects of our system pertain to it which are not dependent on any political party. In this sense, the Crown is the consecrated spirit of Canada.