I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.