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

Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

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

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I have certain people I've kind of fixated upon to the point of pure fantasy. Then there's such a dilemma when here they are, and they're getting ever less and less like the way the fantasy has them.

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

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