Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. - Robertson Davies

If you stay in Canada, I can, too. Everybody says Canada is a hard country to govern, but nobody mentions that for some people it is also a hard country to live in. Still, if we all run away it will never be any better. So let the geniuses of easy virtue go southward; I know what they feel too well to blame them. But for some of us there is no choice; let Canada do what she will with us, we must stay.

One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.

Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession.