Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.--The Book of Brin

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.

The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.