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.'

[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

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

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

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.