It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.
Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart.
Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!
I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.