“Thoughts alone won’t make extraordinary things happen. But nothing ever happens if you don’t visualise it first.”

“Ever since I alone have been aware of what happens to me, nothing happens to me.”

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

“Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.”

“I don’t think I've ever made up anything, everything has happened. Nothing's made up. You don't have to make anything up in this world.”

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”

“There is nothing that should lead you to expect bastardry of that magnitude. Hard things happen; a hard thing happened to Malcolm Turnbull, a hard thing happened to Bob Hawke, a hard thing happened Kim Beazley, a hard thing happened to Kevin Rudd, a hard thing happened to me. You can still make choices on how you conduct yourself.”

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

“… if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.”