A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

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

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.