“Yes, ‘hereafter’ was everything: without that prospect, all life would have been a nasty joke…”

The internal monologue of Eddie Cain in “Lex Talionis” in Russell Kirk Ancestral Shadows

Re a scene in Romeo and Juliet “That’s not ‘realistic,’ of course: in whatever real life may be, lovers don’t start cooing in sonnet form.”

Northrop Frye (I think in a book Frye on Shakespeare but my note to myself on the subject was cryptic)

“a man whose affection for the arts knows all bounds…”

Scott Feschuk in Maclean’s May 14, 2007 (the actual target was Stephen Harper)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say despite media jeering at Trump for supposedly caving in, the real losers were… just about everybody.

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

Franklin Roosevelt, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 3, 2008

In my latest National Post column I offer the State of the Union address I think should be given in 2019… even if it makes people cry.