Russell Smith

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?