"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe."

“People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do”

“Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.”

“I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.”

“God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.”

“Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.”

“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.”

“Hatred - The anger of the weak.”

Source : Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”