I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.