Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.