My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.