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.
I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
I’m bad at picking heroes.
I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.