“I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.”

“In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.”

“I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that peop...”

“I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very k...”

“There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.”

“Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.”

“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine ...”

“It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?”

“My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.”

“Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sheridan...Can _you_ take the glamour out of a Cobra,...”

“She didnt think that by hanging a chandelier from the ceiling you made a room with a chandelier. She felt youd made another world, which you could slip in and out of by some vague process of applic...”

“So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But...”

“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.”

“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”

“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”