Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

We have no healthcare and we have all the guns in the world, it makes you think twice before you start throwing punches in a bar.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.