Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

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

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.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

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

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.