The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important... - Margaret Atwood

"But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life."

"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"

"War is what happens when language fails."

"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."

"Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow."