the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

People are far more protective [of women] instinctively.