I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

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.

Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

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

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