What you get is no longer what you see.

I read a piece by a guy out in Alberta that said Canadians are lazy because they're not patenting enough new inventions. I disagree. Canadians invent a lot of stuff. Actually patenting them is expensive.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

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

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

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.