Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.

I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.

For once, I didn't look back.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.