In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind