Janet Frame

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“If I've made a film that turns out to be good, that's a good result. If I've made a film that's good and made a couple of friends, that's a great result. If I've made a film that's no good, but I made a friend, that's still another great result.”
― Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This?

“School House was pretty easy to remember, and spell, and just as well, because many of the boys there were the product of generations of inbreeding. Canterbury farming families, for some reason, like to marry among their own. The gene pool is very small. You would think that a cursory examination of how they bred their Corriedale sheep would’ve been helpful in this regard. Sadly, no.”
― Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir

“You are unique. There is only one you. And that is you there, right here, for better or worse. Except that there is no better, and there is no worse. It’s just you.”
― Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir