Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

society has an embarrassing history of denial

The happy family is a myth for many.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

A real man's weapon is his mind.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.