People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

I have a high priest in heaven

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.