Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

- Patrick White

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, liter…

- Patrick White

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

- Patrick White

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

- Patrick White

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

- Patrick White

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret th…

- Patrick White

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

- Patrick White

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

- Patrick White