And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one ….

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off..

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth..

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinki….

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can excha….

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were ….

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time..

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “N….

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make..

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow..

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference betwee….

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite….

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines..

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do.….

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and techn….

I read a piece by a guy out in Alberta that said Canadians are lazy because they're not patenting enough new inventions. I disagree. Canadians invent….

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having….

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read..

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their….

Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I c….