Every job leaves its residue a bit of extra knowledge a new skill-set.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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.

A discerning eye needs only a hint and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country guided by the blind impulse of curiosity is a vagabond.