There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.