I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.