Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.