Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.