I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To People In Other Centuries Or In The Context Of Religious Experience...!!!

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.