There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

We can only transform our lives by renewal of mind via renewed knowledge.

The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor

They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

Love makes one fitt for any work.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.