We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

All our best heroes are losers

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.

To be too busie gets contempt.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you.

A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.)

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.