The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

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