This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

All our best heroes are losers

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

The world is the same everywhere.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.