Robertson Davies

"My brother Fairchild has just bought himself an "electronic janitor", a costly device which, I understand, keeps his house at an even temperature of 70 degrees without any effort on his part whatsoeve…"

"Not all readers are prepared, at all times, to make independent judgments. But the failure of modern education to equip them to do so even when they have the inclination creates a serious gap in moder…"

"My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as w…"

"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."

"Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation — unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but have…"

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past."

"The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author. The reader can only interpret, giving the author a fair chance to make his impression."

"It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory."