"I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it."

“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...”

“Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?”

“Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.”

“I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”

Source : Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

“So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.”