About 60 years ago, I said to my father, “Old Mr. Senex is showing his age; he sometimes talks quite stupidly.” My father replied, “That isn’t age. He’s always been stupid. He is just losing his ability to conceal it.”

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Not to be healthy … is one of the few sins that modern society is willing to recognise and condemn.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

As A general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.