The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The true enemy of man is generalization.

To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.