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

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

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.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.