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

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

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.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

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.

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