I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

I don't plan to attend the inauguration [Donald Trump].

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

You express different energies at different times in your life.