Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.
I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.
I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.
I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.
There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.
When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.
I wanted to be his dear, his darling.
I never use that word, retire.
There are no innocent bystanders.
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.