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

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Security is the denial of life

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

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.