"'I can’t do anything about the state of the world, but I can put my own life in order....’”
Tom Rath (the main character) in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Elliot Carver (the villain) in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies
In my latest National Post column I worry about Boris Johnson being threatened with a "diversity course" to make him like the burka.
'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
"Our magazine’s habit of pointing this out [that the elite’s myths about Canada are not actually true], and of stubbornly remembering times when things made more sense, causes our critics to say we’re stuck in the past. I can only reply that they are stuck in the present – in most respects a singularly dismal and confining place to be. It’s like having cultural Alzheimer’s."
Link Byfield in Globe & Mail October 25, 1999
In my latest National Post column I say French President Emmanuel Macron's expressed wish to govern like Jupiter would have doomed him in the English-speaking world... and should have in France or anywhere else too.