Death is very, very terminal.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.