Gregory David Roberts

'''The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on.

There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

Anything that can be put in a nutshell should remain there.

Happiness is a myth, which was invented to make us buy things.

Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

"Most loves are like that ... You heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and independence. After a while, you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here. That's why I'm sick of love."

Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade; but it's worry that keeps the knife sharp, and worry that gets most of us, in the end.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

The sane man is simply a better liar than an insane man.

The difference between news and gossip-News tells you what people did, gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is. Love & its duty, sorrow & its truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.