It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Beds ain't for sleeping, and clothes ain't for bed.

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

I did my time in the jail of your arms