It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.