Taxes are the sinews of the state.
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
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.
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.
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 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
I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry. " If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical. "
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.