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

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

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.

...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

Crying is you, plus tears

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Peace prevails when food suffices

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.