Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.