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

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.

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.

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

Stare up at the stars, Don't be fearful of the night.For, it is the darkness, That lets us know the light.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

I am a great woman.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.