People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains new stars garish birds freak fish grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

It's just a job. Grass grows birds fly waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window except that the birds might eat them.

I like to express certain things that happen in my life the joy of spring the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with the sad part.

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs 13 birds and 3 horses what does that tell you?

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I went to Morocco joined a band called Pegasus ran out of money went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

In The Touch the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.