We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

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

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

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.