Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

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

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

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

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