Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.