But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan

What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.

The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.