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

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 fell apart.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

The List is Life.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

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 the dangerous writers.

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

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

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

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

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

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

The views expressed by Me are in no way endorsed by CBS any of its allied companies or in fact Me.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.