If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.