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.

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

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

I hope you find what you're looking for.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.