Robertson Davies Quotes

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

He was killed by the usual cabal: by himself, first of all; by the woman he knew; by the woman he did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.