...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.