I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

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

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.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.