Richler Books Quotes

#1. Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

Stephen Crane

#2. Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

Bob Seger

#3. The wind in ones face makes one wise.

George Herbert

#4. We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.

Mordecai Richler

#5. The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

Bunker Roy

#6. If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

Bob Goff

#7. For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

Mordecai Richler

#8. When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

Suzanne La Follette

#9. The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Barry Eichengreen

#10. People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Anne Frank