Clergyman's

God is indeed dead.
He died of self-horror
when He saw the creature He had made
in His own image.
- Irving Layton

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
- Irving Layton

When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as you.
- Irving Layton

When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as you.
- Irving Layton

My neighbour
doesn't want to be loved
as much as
he wants to be envied.
- Irving Layton

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
- Irving Layton