"I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor."

"I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that."

"I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal."

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."

"We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'"

"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."