“I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you c...” — Richard Flanagan Quote

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

Sometimes when working on TV, especially when doing procedural cop work, you can refer to your notes. Your notes, of course, do contain, naturally, all the information you need.

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.