I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.