My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It's useless to lecture a human.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.