“Myra rolled her own cigarettes, ate certain weeds from the garden, brewed her own beer, and listened only to CBC. She had a huge computer and wrote her life on it. She went swimming every day. Every morning she cooked stinky omelets. Every morning.”

“I cannot say exactly how far back our friendship goes, but I think I was about fifteen when we first really connected. Henry and his wife, Yvonne, are two of my dearest, oldest friends.”.

“When he was a baby, I cut his hair. I had learned, from the way people went on and on about his curls, that I did not have them, so I decided that must not be good.”