With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

We’re such contrary creatures

Words his soul danced to.

We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

If I facepalm myself too much, maybe the pimples will go away.

What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?

Where there's tea there's hope.

I'm blessed that I am recognized.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Everything is as it should be.