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Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time

At dawn, nothing seems certain ... yet everything appears possible.

The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

We seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ...

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.

Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.

Biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.

Words matter, words have import.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

The perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them
not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

There is much to be said for solitude.