Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.