Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

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

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

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

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

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.