My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.

Mr Obama you're not a healing Jesus, you cause cancer with your bad policies.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.