I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.