I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.