I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Words his soul danced to.

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.

We’re such contrary creatures