Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

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

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I grew up amongst biologists.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.