And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Time is money, but also money is money.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

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.

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

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.