A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

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

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?