I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.