And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

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

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

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.

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.