I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.

Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.