“When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.”

“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

“I hear my father-in-law's response…"Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!"”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

“Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

“When you come that close to not being here, or being told they are going to take your foot off, it changes everything in your life.”

“From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.”

“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”