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

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

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

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

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.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

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