Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living..

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him..

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia..

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anyth….

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems..

Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love w….

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your h….

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Su….

Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window….

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a parti….

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing..

As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a d….

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them..

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it..

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Thi….

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, w….

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; o….

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it..

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication..

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form..

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move….