If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

A rumble gurgled through the space between them."Was that you?"She looked down. "Was that me?""That noise. It sounded like a growl."Well according to you, I am a ferocious car burglar.

If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

Sometimes you just gotta use what God gave you to the best of your abilities.