Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. - Robertson Davies

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

"What would you do if you were me?" said Solly.

"What would I do in your place?"

"No, no; you’d do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?"

He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage.