I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

The lion's share of those bookings have been taken off the sheets, ... It's only after Fed's move last week that we've noticed this improvement?