As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.