It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.