"Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food."

“So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.”

“Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.”

“Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.”

“I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.”

“I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.”

“Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.”

Source : "Scream it out loud: Cover Story". Statement to the audience at a concert, reported in Patrick Donovan, The Age, p. 2., June 3, 2005.

“It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.”