I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.