I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.