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

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

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

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

The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

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