Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

I love Australia - I think.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

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