Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

I think that sexism existents everywhere.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.