Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks.

The truth is, my experience in matters sexual is limited.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Home is where the heartache is.

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.