A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

No one ever hates without a cause.

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.