I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.