Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted...

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

We cannot change the history of the past.

The simple law of the universe is that you create your own reality

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.