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

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.

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

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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.