Poetry which has decided to do without music, to divorce itself from song, has thrown away much of its reason for being... - Robertson Davies

Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

It is not hard to be popular with any group, whether composed of the most conventional Canadians or of Central European freaks, if one is prepared to talk to people about themselves.

Any enjoyment or profit we get from life, we get Now; to kill Now is to abridge our own lives.