Blank pages inspire me with terror..

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way..

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes th….

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes..

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing..

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown..

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears ….

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it..

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it b….

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings..

EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance ….

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find ou….

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic v….

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was….

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're g….

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no….

As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-ly….

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin..

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer ….