"The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see."

You may also like:

• 

  Alice Sebold
  Writer

• 

  Ann-Marie MacDonald
  Playwright

• 

  Anne Carson
  Poet

• 

  Carol Shields
  Author

• 

  Jane Urquhart
  Novelist

• 

  John Berger
  Art critic

• 

  Margaret Atwood
  Poet

• 

  Mark Kingwell
  Professor

• 

  Michael Ondaatje
  Novelist