If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.