As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

you can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it rather than on why you can't.

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.