Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

No sex is better than bad sex.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.