You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.

Feelings do not always determine truth, but they can sometimes tell you what is true.

Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.