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.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

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

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

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

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.

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