He was the hardest working guy on the team.

He made everyone around him want to be better.

He'd never let you know he was sad, but he'd have a sense when you had a bad day.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.