As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.
Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.