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

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

— Irving Layton

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

— Irving Layton

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

— Irving Layton

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

— Irving Layton

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

— Irving Layton

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

— Irving Layton

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

— Irving Layton