That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no “Other.” There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

Every invalid is a physician.

Perception is made up of bands.

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals.

The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.