campbell Quotes

“To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.”

“The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.”

“Love is a friendship set to music.”

“When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.”

“Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.”

“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.”

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.”

“I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.”