After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I do have trouble with titles.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.