Irving Layton

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.