There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

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.

The value of having a vision backed by a strong work ethic is the simple formula for success

Harvest time is a time of joy.

The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward they seem arrogant

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.