"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."

“And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.”

“Kiss me in a way I'll never forget. Kiss me in a way that will stay with me until see you again”

“For too many, to work means having less income.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

“[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.”

“In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.”

“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”

“Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life”

“America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.”