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

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

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

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'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.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

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.