They are not Refugees or Asylum-Seekers, they're Opportunistic Travellers (Federal Minister for Immigration, 2003)

The young generation has seen several previous generations failing to show that there’s any value in exploring the inner life.

THE PRIME MINISTER ON OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN

It’s under review
but payment for killed soldiers
is still very good.

It’s a tremendous
reassurance and comfort
to their families.

Retirement village: ‘The Event Horizon.’

We would stake our entire civilisation on Bach’s music.

Social tip: Just say “market” disparagingly every once in a while.

In Singapore, the media is more conservative than the government.

Reading literature helps you become the best person you're going to be.

"The Volvo Monologues"

“It’s not the moment, it’s the moment after the moment.”

Writing one’s way out of writers’ block by producing garbage and noise on paper until one is back on track (Sylvia tried this at Ted’s suggestion), is a bit like the way Dada and Surrealism served the twentieth century.

Overheard while walking to work: “I’ve got aloe vera coming out of my bum!”