The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

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

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

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

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.