42 quotes
Australian author
“If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”
"It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need."
on Philosophy
"Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?"
on Success
"Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long."
on Death
"Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."
"A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?"
"Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through."
on Writing
"***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die."
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."
on Resilience
"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
on Ambition
"...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death."
"I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish."
on Imagination
"But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?"
on Fear
"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."
"There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty."
"Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real."
on Truth
"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."
on Love
"I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it."
"One eye open. One still in a dream"
on Mental Health
"Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."
