“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.”

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

“Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a vulgar show, enjoy it, guffaw, and forget it the next morning. When a new U.S. President takes office all bets are off and his campaign platform is dismantled and stored away. ”

“You should never take more than you give”