Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

How do you know?”“Well, I don’t, I’m making this up, but I bet I’m right.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Great faith is the product of great fights.