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

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

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

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!