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

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

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

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.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

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

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