Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.
You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.
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.
The media is either our salvation or our death.
I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.