Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happen...ed somewhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions ar...e old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not ...on the battlefields of Vietnam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get dru...nk on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have ha...rdly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »