We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.