I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.
And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.