The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.