The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.