At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

I read a piece by a guy out in Alberta that said Canadians are lazy because they're not patenting enough new inventions. I disagree. Canadians invent a lot of stuff. Actually patenting them is expensive.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

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