That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.
Robertson DaviesYou're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
Robertson DaviesThe division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.
Robertson DaviesThe most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies