The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

This is not a lie: Memory has the taste and texture of cooked meat. Eat it and live. Remember, but only what it is licit to remember.In Aerograd, the word for meat and memory are the same.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.