The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom..

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

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

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them..

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical..

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrod….

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, ….

While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of r….

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance..

The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up t….

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you ….

Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of ….

Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the pepperc….

When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the wor….

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

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

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