I loathe interviews and getting me to sit still for a whole day is unprecedented. - Annie Proulx

Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, "There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.

As he cut, the wildness of the world receded, the vast invisible web of filaments that connected human life to animals, trees to flesh and bones to grass shivered as each tree fell and one by one the web strands snapped.

We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.