Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercant...
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact...
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise known as bowdlerizing,is intolerably vulgar...Unimaginative realism ev...