Ive worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.

The greatest crime ever created is caring and loving.

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.