Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.