Canada was built on dead beavers.

Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.