...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

I often reread books I have written