If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.