I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different.

I've been with police on patrol. When you have a gun, you just feel different. There's a protective level and you feel all those feelings. You feel a little bit macho and a little bit frightened.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.