I was here on earth because I chose to be.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband’s lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.