We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Friendship is a full-time job.

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.