The List is Life.

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.

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.

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

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.