As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

It's okay to start over again.