It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

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

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.