I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

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.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

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.

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.