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.

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

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.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

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 pioneer kills what he loves.