I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Death is very, very terminal.

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

I don't think anyone's normal.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

If you have no doubt, you are not sane.