A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Yelling is a form of publishing

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.