Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!