Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

Every life has a soundtrack.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.