“ And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily e… David Malouf
“ He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story. David Malouf
“ But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to touching in the dark. And the old man's?To worms in their garden box; stepping asidea moment in a… David Malouf
“ So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as ther… David Malouf
“ Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself.… David Malouf
“ What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someo… David Malouf
“ What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet becom… David Malouf
“ So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us. David Malouf
“ Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world. David Malouf
“ Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion t… David Malouf
“ The planet, saved for another day, stokes upits slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarletgash that take our breath away; a world at its interminableshow of holy dying. And we go with it… David Malouf
