I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

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

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves. -RCSJR

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

To long to read.

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.