"Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11."

“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.”

“There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That's the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you understand because for those you can give a really simple explanation. But some things about time I just don't know how to give simple explanations for, even though I can tell you mathematically what's going on.”

“Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.”

“She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

“Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.”

“We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.”

“I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.”

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

Source : Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.