How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

The pioneer kills what he loves.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

Care to join me, Goodfellow?”“Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?

Ah, that’s just sean nós singing and dancing. Something to do around the pub of an evening.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.