She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

common sense is the enemy of romance

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.

There are no silver bullets.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.