Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.

Church and business are compatible

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.