“ Architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades... Tim Winton
“ Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited. Tim Winton
“ Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes... Tim Winton
“ In Europe, the dimensions of physical space seemed compressed. The looming vertical presence of mountains cut me off from the horizon. I'd not lived with that kind of spatial curtailment before. Even… Tim Winton
“ My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,… Douglas Stewart
“ In a seedy cinema on ru du Temple, watching Disney's Peter Pan with my son, I found that although we were all gazing at the same screen in the flickering dark, I was seeing a different film to the res… Tim Winton
“ The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced kn… Colin Thiele
“ Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are. Megan Jacobson
“ In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language. Patrick White
