Marriage isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't happ… - Robertson Davies

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Ti si Boga stvorio po sopstvenoj slici, pa kad si otkrio da nije dobar, prestao si da veruješ u Njega. To je sasvim uobičajen vid psihološkog samoubistva