They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!