Reminded that the Commonwealth was already involved in pre-school and university education, Chifley replied: “That’s different – they’re for kids before they’ve got souls and after they’ve lost them.

...the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world.” From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily