My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.

A woman is always beutiful to the one who has fallen in love with her, nothing can dampen her image before his eyes.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

Germany must remain Germany.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.