I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
