The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

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

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

If a man's able to laugh about himself, that's good. You can be in love with a man or share his bed, but if there's no humor, there's nothing.

I don't think humor is something to be afraid of.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.