no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.