You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001