When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater scene, much of a television indus….

War is what happens when language fails..

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives..

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart..

All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. Bu….

If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendl….

You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that t….

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else..

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf..

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused..

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along..

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless….

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in t….

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to th….

A movie about the past is not the same as the past..

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I ….

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the im….

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a ….

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Bur….

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up….

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka..