...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

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.

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

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.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

The Lord God give rain to the earth.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future."

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.