You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

A busy life is not necessarily an effective life

Art is about emotion

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.