Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

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

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.