I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.

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

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

The future is not Google-able.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.