They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

Everything I do is the environment.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.