In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

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.

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

You have to want something or you're finished.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

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