"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

"We are like oil and water, but all my other relationships are like oil and vinegar! Delicious!"

"A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes."

"The perfect host requires the perfect parasite."

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go"

"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations."

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

"Equations are the devil's sentences."

"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.'"