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.

- Thomas Keneally

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…

- Thomas Keneally

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 …

- Thomas Keneally

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

- Thomas Keneally

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…

- Thomas Keneally

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

- Thomas Keneally

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

- Thomas Keneally

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

- Thomas Keneally

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

- Thomas Keneally