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.

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

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.

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.

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