Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.