Occupation: Writer Birth: September 27, 1950
I live in the light, But carry my dark with me..
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third..
The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath..
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you..
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies..
A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way….
Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted..
Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you ….
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things..
It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begi….
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive..
What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wa….
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our ….
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immatur….
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spi….
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I do….
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life….
We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then ….
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly d….
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever..
Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead..