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

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

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

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

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

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

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.