I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'