[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Life is given to bring the will of God on earth

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.