Different people work different ways.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Songs live longer than kingdoms.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Guys don't do that when they go out. Guys don't wear outfits that feature the dong.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.