All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting.

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.