I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

You might be a redneck if your pocketknife has ever been referred to as Exhibit A.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.