When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

War is hot, not cold.

Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

The Advantages of Crises in a relationship is to showcase the REAL Person in the relationship.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

I'm very driven by writing.

You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.