"This is where we start. Let it be blank. Blank is different from nothing.”"

"Alas, being a New Zealander is such an exquisite dilemma."

"We bow only to the highest mountain."

"In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the l…"

"When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it."

"When I began to write in the 1970s there were three women I considered my elders: Katerina Mataira, Arapera Blank and…"

"When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departur…"

"Lots of people come just to dance and have a good time. Here you can do anything you want to do, be anyone you want t…"

"It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.”"

"In the old days, in the years that have gone before us, the land and sea felt a great emptiness, a yearning. The moun…"