We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.