"There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love."

“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (1999). “No borders: new poems”, Holy Cow Press

“If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

“Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

“One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.”

“Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.”

Source : Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

“There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.”

“You are my cat, and I am your human.”

“You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.”