I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

I am not your justification for existence.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.