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

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

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.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

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

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

I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.