Quotes by Irving Layton
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you.
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Progress of a marriage: "There was a time when you couldn't...
