“John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of histo...”

“Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.”

“I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.”

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”

“There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.”

“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched...”