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.

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

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.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

It does not cost anything to dream. Spend your time enjoying your big dreams.

There is a vast intelligence running this world, and everything is in order; nothing is missing

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you