Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

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.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

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.

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

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.