If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one’s heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

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I don’t have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I’d like to buried naked. It’s a way of life in Australia.

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In the false country of the zoo / Grief is well represented there / From those continents of the odd / And outmoded, Africa and Australia.

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… Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

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Each Australian is a Ulysses.

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The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, ‘What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?’ That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.

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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

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