A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

Truly brave people accept that they may not see victory in their own lifetime. You just keep at it for the sake of those who come after you. You might not win but you stand a better chance by doing something.

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.

We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

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