You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

We're working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that's what we're working off of. We got to get our tax rates down.

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?