As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

The extreme always makes an impression.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.