We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Everyone knows I'm no treehugger

You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than you can.

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.