I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.