“Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasnt just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyones cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoo...”

“On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, i...”

“Adam was charming and spoke perfect French. Like many anglophones in Montral, he actually spoke French better than we did. They knew exactly which verbs to use in the same way that people knew whic...”

“You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didnt get it. And they are all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent...”

“I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldnt say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod ...”

“Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn’t just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone’s cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the ind...”

“Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.”

“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to ...”

“They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.”