There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.