I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.
I noticed you tore down Donovan's house. " He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.
Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.