I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.