Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Literature endures like the universal spirit, And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.

Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.