And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

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.

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

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.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

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

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.