I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

Let's build a battery plant here.

Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

I took tap classes growing up.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

I want my clothes to make you smile!

The rich get richer until the poor get educated.