Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.