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

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

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.

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

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

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