“I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to…” — Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.