Dame Edna Everage

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.