The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.