I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

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

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.

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

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.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.