Every country needs another country to make fun of.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.