Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.