I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me..

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself..

Not real can tell us about real..

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one..

I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only storie….

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle..

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bure….

The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being ….

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I wi….

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be..

What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. ….

Yelling is a form of publishing.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's….

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past..

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one..

Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabric….

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one..

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out..

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit..

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else..

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popu….