Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.