If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.