The past is a closed door.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

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.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.