The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—‘important’ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and ‘serious’ expresses what I mean much better

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.

Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When you get to sing with someone you care about, it's magical.