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

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.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

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

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

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.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia