Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.