A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.