So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all….

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs..

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind..

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener..

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular..

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender..

Coitus is random, children are definite..

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue..

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility ….

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold ….

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins..

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow….

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those….

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't..

The List is Life..

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very stro….

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after comi….

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which….

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back..

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose….

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become th….