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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.