Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.