Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Only be rebellious for good reasons.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

You want us to fly off to save the world on Happy The Dragon?

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.