"What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway."

-- Bryce Courtenay

“I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.”

Source : "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.
“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”
“And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.”
“Palestinians caged up like animals.”
“The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.”
“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.”
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.”

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