I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at a….

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut..

I feel like the word shatter..

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them wi….

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves..

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another….

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, w….

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind..

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love..

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does..

Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and fun parties, with fireworks and be….

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really….

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yo….

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer….

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must c….

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing..

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word tha….

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth some….

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth..

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like….

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering momen….