"Elvis is dead and I don't feel good for myself."

“I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.”

“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”

“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House

“It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.”

Source : Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1890). “Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform: Collection of the Principal Speeches Made in Parliament Or Before the People, by the Honorable Wilfrid Laurier ... Member for Quebec-East in the Commons, Since His Entry Into Active Politics in 1871”, Turcotte & Ménard

“Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.”

“The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.”

“If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.”

“I'm quite pregnant actually ... this is the adventure of a lifetime.”