Personal finances are like peopleโs personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
Thomas KeneallyThomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
Thomas KeneallyHe 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.
Thomas KeneallyBut re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasโperhaps rightlyโscathingly 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.
Thomas Keneally