People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.