I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

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

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

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?

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

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

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