Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Travelers should only read after dark.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Why is it "in" to be a christian, but "out" to live a holy life?

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

A magic effect is never completely finished.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.