That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

You need to know your destiny

What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

You don't have to understand me I am not a word in a dictionary just accept me the way I am.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten.

Families, like individuals, are unique.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.