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

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

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

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

I love Australia - I think.

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

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.