Makes of men date, like makes of car.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.