Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

Having more success allows you more freedom to take more risks and do things.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

I just keep my cars to myself.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.