I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

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.

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.

One day, my lady." said Mr. Keeper, stepping aside and allowing her to join them, "I should hope I would be fortunate enough to see such a graceful, unearthly curtsy from you again.

Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.