I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.