I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I have the ‘L’.You have the ‘O’.Fate has the ‘V’.Together we have the ‘E’.How then can we deny we are in LOVE?

As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.