I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.