Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.