They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the ….

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason..

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely..

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together..

When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, ….

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes ….

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory..

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than ….

Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the….

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other roa….

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….

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

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….

The bell that measures time is ringing.

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

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 ….

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….

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….

I am not your justification for existence..

Canada was built on dead beavers..

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