What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

I want my words to survive translation.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

Right now, your destiny is to shut up!