Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.