Michael Leunig Time Quotations

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

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?

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

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.

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.