"At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year..." — Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.