Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

I love marriage.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.