"This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixt…"

"I was a voracious reader, but you would be mistaken if you took that as evidence of my quality."

"Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Can…"

"My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my n…"

"So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadia…"

"...the contempt that he has for Quebecers, and for the facts, that trickles from every page, hurt me, as a Quebecer, …"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"

"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"