Am I right in thinkin' you've maybe been" - he dropped his voice - "the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

Plant your love and let it grow.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.