“If I knew something about it, I wouldn’t lecture on it!”

“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

“Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.”

“It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world”

“I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.”

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”

“I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. All their writing was, you know, about the Canadian landscape or something. And my poem is about this woman with her legs spread open.”

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

“I knew enough about adults to know that if I did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. Why would they believe me about something so unlikely?”

“If this is a lecture and the lecturer writes down one thing and you take down something else, how are you going to pass your exams?”