As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

Drama don't arrive by surprise

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.