The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.
Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness.
They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves.
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
Inside the peach, there is a stone.
Snowman wakes before dawn.
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you.
She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.