Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

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

Act quickly, think slowly.