I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards her…

- Jane Alison

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually…

- Jane Alison

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

- Jane Alison

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

- Jane Alison

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

- Jane Alison

Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.

- Jane Alison

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

- Jane Alison

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

- Jane Alison

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

- Jane Alison