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

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

The List is Life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.