We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.