I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

Live your dreams. Live your life to the greatest.The more you believe ...the more you will achieve

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.