“You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there ...”

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-o...”

“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my co...”

“Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. Its a house like every other house but at some point a family live...”

“Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.”

“Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.”

“We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding.”

“If I had had a daughter, I always knew what I would tell her. First of all, I would try to counter all outdated stereotypical claptrap that girls are commonly told about their sex--that women are v...”

“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces ...”

“My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanics file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceStation at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clatt...”