On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

What makes you a chaffinch?

Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

I think doing love scenes is never easy without a strong emotional background.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.