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

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.

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.

Those who Discover the High Sea are the ones who are FREE to Be what they Want to Be.

A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

... law is a substitute for love.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.