Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you….

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so….

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy..

I am not your justification for existence..

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud..

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow..

If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is ….

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a ston….

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability….

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself..

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger..

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not ….

I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwa….

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel..

There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits..

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say..

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror..

Canada was built on dead beavers..

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience..

The bell that measures time is ringing.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you did….