“Reading this column was like eating a chocolate-covered lemon: sweet on the outside, but terribly bitter when you bite down.”
Letter from Jill Woodley of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen November 14, 2004 [not about one of my columns]
"'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
“I imagine that every teenager today has heard of Stalingrad and Alamein and D-Day, but I wonder how many know the name of Imphal, that ‘Flower on Lofty Heights’ where Japan suffered the greatest catastrophe in its military history. There’s no reason why they should; it was a long way away.”
George Macdonald Fraser Quartered Safe Out Here
“Eugene Genovese once remarked that Joseph Schumpeter was ‘that rarest of all human creatures: an economist with a sense of tragedy.’”
Neil Cameron in Policy Options Vol. 21, #2 (March 2000)
In my latest National Post column I predict the policies the federal Tories will endorse in Halifax this weekend.
“No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.”
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Elliot Carver (the villain) in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies