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

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.

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

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

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.

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.