The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

He left to do whatever editors do.

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

It was so bad, it was worth more than we paid.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life.

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.