Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.