I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.