Ideals make reason inaccessible.

God is a book I can no longer read.

Only God would adore his own death.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

It brings me back to the moment, and I want to livethe moment with everything I’ve got.

The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.