One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

We're all idealistic when young.