Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

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.

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 like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

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

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.