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I've always been pretty much on the outside of any side you can find.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought.

If the shit is up to your neck - whatever you do, don't make waves.

If Only
but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can't rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good.

Go down deep enough into darkness and nothing's ever the same,

enjoy - the on-site health care,

He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit.

As a Turkish proverb says
it was going to be like digging a well with a needle.

for cleanliness, that's a dirty

With bee-stung lips and bolt-on boobs,

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

Heavily armed men in uniform were everywhere, but there was nothing you could call genuine security: as usual, too many guns, not enough intelligence.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

Saint Mark, chapter 16, verse 6.

would have seen a man with empty eye sockets,

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

Nobody's ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

The driver thought I was crazy - but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured we were about even.

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

There was this book I'd read by somebody whose name I couldn't remember and he had this expression 'sorrow floats

After all, education is a grab for a better future, no matter how impossible the prospect may seem at the time.

life lives on in our children and their children, and not even a king can take that away.

Every life leaves a trace, every ship a wake, and even though it was often just a glimmer of phosphorescence in the dark,

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.

Shocking as it was, over 45 percent of Arab women couldn't read or write.

Is her husband a cop too? That's the way it usually works in

You gonna curse the darkness or light a candle?

Like people say - if you want to make God laugh, tell him you've got plans.

a man gets burnt out long before his reputation.

to be in Paris when you're young and free - well, there's not much on earth better than that.

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

Locard's Exchange Principle and it says "every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.

Somehow, she and the physicians rolled the stone back from the cave and eventually he was released to the high-dependency unit.

A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

Things that cross all racial, religious, and cultural boundaries - poor

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

long view of the drive and gave that week's

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

That was the part of the epic story about coming back from the dead, being restored to life. "He is risen," it says. He is risen.

So hot that the locals claimed a pervert was a man who preferred women to beer

Yet again that the quietest man in the room is usually the most dangerous.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I used to be a journalist.

The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.