Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

The Window to the Universe Opens Inward and Outward.

I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

I walk around a lot secretly. Even when I use a car, I park it briefly and walk. It seems that I still need some time alone to think and sort out things myself.