It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.