The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

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.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.