No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.