I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Greatness can only brought through time.

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy.

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)