In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

Many speak to her but she's looking for the one who knows her souls language.

Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.