I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."

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

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

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

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

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