Thoughtful "Quotes"

Since my first book, creating riddles and fables has been my favourite past-time. I thought it would be a bit of a novelty to add a page, that contains some of my favourite quotes and then some of my more serious ones. Some you might like, some you might hate, personally I do both.

From the Pedestrian Council of Australia anti-drink driving advertisement, in which I featured:

When I was in prison I got slashed down the face, my ears cut off, I had a claw hammer put through my brain just here, cut throat razors here and here, butchers knife there, icepick there, ice pick up the back there. . .

I know most of you out there hate my guts, I'm not a very popular person, but you drink and you drive you're the same as me, you're a murdering maggot just the same as I am.

Excerpt from "Chopper", Mushroom Pictures:

You've probably read all the newspaper stories about me, and you've heard the word on the street about me, and you've probably got a picture in your head of what Chopper Read's like and we're sitting here at this bar all very nice and cosy and I'm a bit of a let down to you.

Excerpt from interview with John Collis, Adam Cullen and your good self on Channel 7's Sunday Sunrise.

I'm not suggesting that if your local butcher is of annoyance to you that you stab him in the head 21 times, it's just a story with a moral.

Mark "Chopper" Read: They don't mind if you get honest work with the Cabramatta City Council cleaning out the toilets, that's good, that's rehabilitation. But they don't like the idea of you getting too far up the ladder, you know.

Interview with Patrick Carlyon from The Bulletin, 29 May 2002

"Once you pick up pen and paper, you can take people on a journey anywhere," he says. "The trouble is they come back later on and ask: 'Is that true?' I say: 'Who gives a shit?'" MBR

"Once I've got a camera in front of me I should be locked up in a cupboard," he says. "I lie my head off. I could be the minister for propaganda for the Nazi Party or the Communist Party with equal fervour. The reason I'm on telly and sound like I have so much conviction is because I have no convictions about anything at all. I believe I could have done well in politics."

"I haven't shot anybody since 1992, and even then I didn't do it,"

Henry Lawson had class. When he hit his wife, he used an umbrella.

He ponders Melbourne's underworld. Two angry girl scouts with tennis rackets could bust it open

Interview on ABC radio Wednesday, January 15, 2003 in relation to the so called Chopper Read rule.

You know um, writing books is not much different from the world I was previously associated with.I mean its as full of, its got as many scallywags in the publishing world as there was in my previous field of endeavour.