I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

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.

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

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

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.