"There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student."

“I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.”

“As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.”

“When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated”

“When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.”

“The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

“I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption - shopping, eating, getting high, whatever - anything to not "feel" what is really going on.”

“I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.”

“If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.”