Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
Gardening is not a rational act.
I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.
Don’t eat anything you aren’t prepared to kill. Don’t kill anything you aren’t prepared to eat.
The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.