You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.