"Well, you know when you're the opening act for large groups? Sometimes you feel like a rectal thermometer, you're going out there taking the temperature of the audience."

"Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I ca…"

"For ages the Aborigines had relied heavily on isolation. It was their asset and their liability, and gave t…"

"The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many w…"

"Back when the singing cowboy movies ruled, Hollywood hardly made a distinction between the sound of the cow…"

"Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on al…"

"I am on the anti-imperialist left." The Stalinist left? "I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejor…"