You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

An education without a Bible education is no education.