There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.

Saturday was 90 minutes when people would judge whether we were the real deal

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Don't let doing enough be good enough.

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.