Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain..

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then..

I'm bad at picking heroes..

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is ….

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons..

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It was depre….

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, p….

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt..

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were….

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in….

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy..

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they ar….

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly..

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called ho….

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children,….

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, tr….

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses..

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by….

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Lo….

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the ….

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their….