Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

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

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

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.