‘Are you going to the Farquharson hearing? I’ve got two reactions to this. He can’t possibly have done it. But there’s no other explanation.’

LAWYER WALKING PAST THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA, 16 NOVEMBER 2007

‘There is no explanation of the death of children that is acceptable.’

LEON WIESELTIER: KADDISH

‘…life is lived on two levels of thought and act: one in our awareness and the other only inferable, from dreams, slips of the tongue, and inexplicable behaviour.’

JANET MALCOLM: THE PURLOINED CLINIC